December 25th, 1944 | Vol. XLIV, No. 26 | U.S. December 25, 1944 Location U.S. Advertisement Advertisement © 2026 TIME USA, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Use of this ...
There was a general expectation that the war in Europe would be over soon, and that the defeat of Japan would follow not long after. After three years of bloody fighting, the Nazi armies had been ...
In early December 1944, Gen. George S. Patton Jr., commander of the United States’ 3rd Army, stood with his troops at Germany’s doorstep. He’d pushed his men across France toward Germany with furious ...
Asked how he was handling the 1944 buying rush, the manager of Scribner’s Manhattan bookshop replied (according to Bennett Cerf in Try and Stop Me): “Oh, at 9 o’clock we just open the doors and jump ...
On this day in 1944, as the nation entered its fourth year of war, President Franklin D, Roosevelt ordered Secretary of War Henry Stimson to seize all of Montgomery Ward’s properties after the ...
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Getting to the post-Christmas races at Leopardstown in 1944 was no easy task, as all private motoring had… FROM THE ARCHIVES:Getting to the post-Christmas races at Leopardstown in ...
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